President Zuma's poison scare

She’s a born-again Christian but President Jacob Zuma’s fourth wife, Nompumelelo Ntuli-Zuma, has been accused of trying to poison him. Would MaNtuli stoop that low?

President Jacob Zuma (72) will partly be remembered for his flamboyant love life.

The latest allegation is that one of his wives, Nompumelelo “MaNtuli” Ntuli-Zuma, plotted to poison him and appears to have been banned from his Nkandla compound. It’s the most recent in a sorry saga of domestic upheavals.

The President’s wives always accompany him to his State of the Nation Address and the absence of MaNtuli during the opening of Parliament this year raised eyebrows and fuelled speculation about marital problems.

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November 2017

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